Exclusive London hotel sued over bedbug attack

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One of London’s most expensive hotels is facing an embarrassing multimillion-dollar compensation claim after an American lawyer and his wife were attacked by bedbugs during a recent stay.

Sidney Bluming, a prominent New York celebrity lawyer, and his wife, Cynthia, are suing the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, owner of the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, after staying at the fashionable London hotel last May.

According to the lawsuit, which is seeking several million dollars in damages, the Blumings were bitten hundreds of times during their five-night stay leaving their skin red, swollen and itchy.